CN110931399A - RIE semiconductor material etching device with multiple detection functions - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides a RIE semiconductor material etching device with multiple detection functions, which comprises: the system comprises an RIE semiconductor material etching cavity, a gas flowmeter, a mass spectrum-spectrum combined instrument, a RHEED, an atomic force microscope, a gas pressure gauge, a temperature tester, a warping tester, an X-ray diffractometer, a radio frequency power supply, a vacuum pump, an acquisition board card and a computer terminal. The system integrates spectrum detection, mass spectrum detection, XRD detection, atomic force microscope detection, temperature, stress, gas flow and pressure detection into an RIE semiconductor material etching system, and provides a reactive ion etching in-situ on-line detection system with a gas state/solid state/particle state/plasma state multi-dimensional mass detection function. The measuring means of the device basically realizes the monitoring of information directly related to defects such as covering elements, crystal lattices, substances and the like and the detection of film information such as film surface roughness, etching depth, depth-to-width ratio and the like, and realizes the material etching process with low damage and high performance.
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Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of dry etching of semiconductor materials, and particularly relates to a RIE semiconductor material etching device with multiple detection functions.
Background
Etching is an extremely important one-step process in semiconductor manufacturing, microelectronic manufacturing and micro-nano manufacturing, and is an important mode of patterning (pattern) processing of semiconductor materials. The quality of the material etching level directly has important influence on the performance, the service life and the like of the semiconductor device. In the etching process of semiconductor materials, the on-line detection technology is taken as the premise of controlling the etching level of the materials and is an important component for improving the etching technology of the semiconductor materials. In order to meet the requirements of uniformity, controllability, low damage, low defect and the like of an etched material, parameters which directly influence the performance of an etched film, such as chamber temperature, material components, material warping, etching speed, gas flow, gas pressure and the like, need to be accurately controlled in the material etching process.
The absorption, transmission and conversion mechanism of energy and the generation, evolution and regulation of defects in the etching of semiconductor films relate to the dynamics of electron density (plasma), atoms, molecules and the like. At present, research on semiconductor film reactive ion etching devices is widely carried out, and partial results are obtained, but the research on detection and regulation in the etching process is still in the initial stage, the detection means is single, most of the semiconductor film reactive ion etching devices adopt a certain detection method to detect the etching condition, and the detection capability and the precision are low. However, the reactive ion etching process is essentially the evolution process of the microstructure of the thin film caused by physical and chemical actions, the structural change depends on the formation and breaking of chemical bonds and the rearrangement process of atoms, and the atomic motion on a time scale finally determines the forming (phase change) process and the function of the material. With the increase of the etching power, the nonuniformity caused by the reactive ion etching also increases, so that the online monitoring of the etching uniformity after the etching power is changed is necessary.
Further refinement of the semiconductor patterned substrate puts higher requirements on etching resolution, so that a plurality of more advanced measurement means are required to be adopted to characterize the microscopic change processes on line, so that the process of material reactive ion etching is known essentially, the detection capability and the precision are improved, and the reactive ion etching process is optimized more scientifically.
At present, equipment on the market mainly aims at measuring parameters such as temperature in an etching cavity, etching uniformity and material surface morphology, online PL and Raman detection and XRD detection technologies are already applied in laboratory research, but the use of the equipment on production equipment is not reported. Mass spectrometers, scanning electron microscopes, ultrafast RHEED, etc. are not reported to be integrated in semiconductor material etching systems. The mass spectrometer can ionize substances, then carry out separation according to charge-to-mass ratios of different substances, detect components of etching gas and etched materials in the etching cavity according to measured spectral peak intensities of different ions, establish a change rule of the etching plasma gas along with time, accurately reflect special changes occurring in a certain moment according to the change trend of the etching plasma gas, and determine the influence relation of the gas components on the etching effect. However, at present, there is no semiconductor thin film etching device for on-line detection of an integrated mass spectrometer, and the mass spectrometer has a slightly poor resolving power for substances with too similar ion masses, and the spectrometer has the advantages of sensitive and rapid detection as an instrument for identifying the substances and determining the chemical composition and relative content of the substances.
The gas components and the proportion thereof, the gas flow and the pressure in the etching cavity have important effects on the etching rate and the etching uniformity of the semiconductor film, and the real-time monitoring of the gas components can help people to better understand the proportion of chemical etching and physical etching in the etching process and the influence of the proportion on the etching change, master the reaction mechanism and optimize the etching parameters. Another important detecting instrument RHEED equipment can monitor the etching process in real time through a diffraction pattern of electrons, but cannot capture the instant change information of a material structure, and the ultrafast RHEED is used for carrying out on-line monitoring on the etching process of the semiconductor material, so that the detection with high space-time resolution can be realized, and the processes of adsorption, desorption and the like in the etching process of the semiconductor film can be determined; the AFM is a common device for measuring the surface appearance of a thin film, particularly the sub-nanometer level fluctuation, and is currently measured in an off-line state.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a device which can realize real-time monitoring of gas state, solid state, particle state, plasma state, stress, temperature, defect, damage and the like in the etching process of a semiconductor film material and can adjust etching parameters through the feedback of a detection result.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention adopts a technical solution that is an RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus with multiple detection functions, comprising:
the system comprises an RIE semiconductor material etching cavity, a gas flowmeter, a mass spectrum-spectrum combined instrument, a RHEED, an atomic force microscope, a gas pressure gauge, a temperature tester, a warping tester, an X-ray diffractometer, a radio frequency power supply, a vacuum pump, an acquisition board card and a computer terminal;
the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity comprises a plurality of sealed transparent windows;
the gas flowmeter, the gas pressure gauge and the warpage tester are uniformly distributed at the top of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity;
the X-ray diffractometer is arranged on two sides of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity;
the RHEED is arranged on the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity;
the atomic force microscope is integrated in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity;
the temperature tester is arranged on the side wall of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity;
the radio frequency power supply and the vacuum pump are arranged at the bottom of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity;
the mass spectrometer-spectrum combined instrument comprises an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, an inductively coupled spectrometer and analysis equipment;
the inductively coupled spectrometer and the analysis device are both arranged outside the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity, and the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer is arranged in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity.
The computer terminal is connected with the acquisition board card through a lead; the collecting board card is respectively connected with the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity, the gas flowmeter, the mass spectrum-spectrum combined instrument, the RHEED, the atomic force microscope, the gas pressure gauge, the temperature tester, the warping tester, the X-ray diffractometer, the radio frequency power supply and the vacuum pump in sequence through leads;
in the RIE semiconductor material etching device with multiple detection functions, the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and the inductively coupled spectrometer are integrated by gasifying an integrated shared material to the plasma generating device, and mass spectrum-spectrum integration is realized by reasonably arranging detection modules of the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and the inductively coupled spectrometer.
In the RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus with multiple detection functions, the X-ray diffractometer includes an incident module and a receiving module, which are respectively installed on two sides of the RIE semiconductor material etching chamber and are incident to the surface of the etched material through the transparent window.
In the RIE semiconductor material etching device with multiple detection functions, the temperature measuring instrument adopts a single-camera colorimetric temperature measuring system, and detects the surface temperature of the etching material or the etching cavity through the transparent window, so as to realize real-time monitoring of the temperature in the etching cavity.
In the RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus with the above-described various detection functions, the detection light path of the warp measuring instrument is transmitted through the transparent window.
In the RIE semiconductor material etching apparatuses of the above-described various detection functions, RHEED includes ultrafast RHEED or RHEED; an electron gun and a fluorescence imaging window of the ultrafast RHEED are respectively arranged at two sides of the etching cavity; the electron gun emits single-energy electron grazing to the surface of the etched material with very small energy, and obtains the information of film thickness, composition and crystal growth mechanism through the appearance of diffraction spots on the fluorescent screen.
In the RIE semiconductor material etching device with the multiple detection functions, an atomic force microscope probe and a cantilever beam part of an atomic force microscope are integrated in an RIE semiconductor material etching cavity and used for in-situ measurement of the surface appearance of the thin film in the etching process.
The specific working mode of the invention is as follows:
the mass spectrometer-spectrometer is used for analyzing components and proportions after reaction gas in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity is subjected to plasmatization; the X-ray diffractometer utilizes the crystal to generate a diffraction pattern, reflects information in the arrangement aspect of atoms in the crystal and determines a series of information such as the type, phase composition and the like of the crystal; the gas pressure gauge is used for monitoring the vacuum degree in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity in real time; the gas flow meter is used for monitoring the flow and flow speed uniformity of gas injection in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity in real time; the atomic force microscope measures the surface appearance and the force curve of the film through the cantilever beam probe; the warpage tester acquires morphology pictures of the etched material at a high speed through a camera for comparison, obtains a comparison result of morphology change, and determines the warpage condition after etching; the temperature tester can monitor the temperature change of the material in the etching process in real time.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
the invention integrates RHEED detection, mass spectrum-spectrum detection, XRD microstructure detection, atomic force microscope detection, temperature and stress detection and other detection functions into semiconductor material etching equipment, and provides a semiconductor film etching system with a multi-dimensional (gas state/solid state/particle state/plasma state) quality online detection function so as to ensure the etching uniformity and the material performance of the etched material to be optimal.
The semiconductor material etching system with various online detection functions can integrate all the detection modes and can also be partially integrated. The on-line monitoring of the surface appearance, the surface roughness, the component change in the material etching process, the etching depth, the etching defects and the like of the etched material is realized, the etching speed and the uniformity are improved, and the material etching process with low damage and high performance is realized.
The invention integrates ultrafast RHEED, but does not exclude the use of common RHEED; the invention integrates the atomic force microscope into the semiconductor material etching system, and realizes the online monitoring of the surface appearance and the force curve of the material in the etching process by online measuring the surface appearance of the semiconductor film in the etching process in the sealed cavity, and simultaneously avoids the pollution of the film by the external environment.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus with various online detection functions according to an embodiment of the present invention;
in the figure, a 1-RIE semiconductor material etching cavity, a 2-gas flowmeter, a 3-mass spectrum-spectrum combined instrument, a 4-RHEED, a 5-atomic force microscope AFM, a 6-gas pressure gauge, a 7-temperature tester, an 8-warping tester, a 9-X-ray diffractometer XRD, a 10-radio frequency power supply, an 11-vacuum pump, a collecting board card 12 and a computer terminal 13 are arranged;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer-spectrometer according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
The embodiment is realized by adopting the following technical scheme, as shown in fig. 1, the RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus with multiple detection functions includes: the system comprises an RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, a gas flowmeter 2, a mass spectrometer-spectrometer 3, an ultrafast RHEED4, an atomic force microscope AFM5, a gas pressure gauge 6, a temperature tester 7, a warpage tester 8, an X-ray diffractometer XRD9, a radio-frequency power supply 10, a vacuum pump 11, an acquisition board card 12 and a computer terminal 13;
the RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus may be used for etching semiconductor materials of sub-micron and sub-micron dimensions.
The mass spectrum detection technology is widely applied as a high-precision substance component and proportion detection method, and the measurement range can reach 10-6at% to 100 at%. The spectrum detection technique generates high-frequency electromagnetic field via induction coil to form gasified substanceThe plasma forms the monitoring process of elements by detecting optical signals emitted by the plasma, but the corresponding functions are realized by connecting a detector behind an ICP (inductively coupled plasma) rectangular tube in the detection process of the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and the inductively coupled spectrometer, so that the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and the inductively coupled spectrometer are integrated and share materials and gasified to the plasma generating device, and the mass spectrum-spectrum integration is realized by reasonably arranging the detection modules of the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and the inductively coupled spectrometer. The part of the mass spectrum-spectrum combination instrument distributed in the etching cavity carries out plasma excitation on the etching material, and a series of signals are extracted through a signal transmission processing system and are analyzed by a computer to realize the on-line monitoring on the components, the damage and the uniformity of the material. The mass spectrometer-spectrum combined instrument can also realize the analysis of components and proportion after the reaction gas in the etching process chamber is plasmatized, realize the on-line detection of the gas components in the etching chamber, ensure the purity of the gas in the reaction etching chamber and reduce the etching pollution. The spectrometer can also directly detect the distribution uniformity of etching gas plasmatization while laser is induced to emit.
The computer terminal is connected with the acquisition board card through a lead; the collecting board card is respectively connected with the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity, the gas flowmeter, the mass spectrum-spectrum combined instrument, the RHEED, the atomic force microscope, the gas pressure gauge, the temperature tester, the warping tester, the X-ray diffractometer, the radio frequency power supply and the vacuum pump in sequence through leads;
the system comprises an RIE semiconductor material etching cavity, a gas flowmeter, a mass spectrum-spectrum combined instrument, a RHEED, an atomic force microscope, a gas pressure gauge, a temperature tester, a warping tester, an X-ray diffractometer, a radio frequency power supply, a vacuum pump, an acquisition board card and a computer terminal;
the mass spectrometer-spectrum combined instrument is an improved design of a plasma inductively coupled mass spectrometer and an inductively coupled plasma spectrometer, achieves light weight of a detection device by reasonably arranging a mass spectrum and a spectrum detection device to share a gasification and excitation plasma part, and can carry out comparison verification through detection results of the mass spectrum and the spectrum detection device, so that accuracy of an analysis result is guaranteed.
The spectrum detection device can be arranged outside the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 and carries out ray transmission through a sealed transparent window; the plasma receiving part of the mass spectrum detection device is arranged in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, and the analysis equipment can be arranged outside the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 through reasonably arranging the cavity, so that the space occupation in the cavity is reduced.
The mass spectrometer-spectrum combined instrument can also realize the detection of the reactive gas plasma in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, analyze the gas components and the proportion in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 during the RIE etching, realize the monitoring of the gas components in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, ensure that other non-etching plasma gas is not introduced, reduce the probability of material pollution, and provide quantitative analysis guidance for the reactive ion etching process.
XRD (X-ray diffraction), which is a crystal detection method, generates a diffraction pattern when X-rays strike on crystals with periodically arranged atoms, the diffraction pattern reflects information on arrangement of atoms in the crystals, and the atom arrangement modes of different crystals are different, so that a series of information such as the type, phase composition and the like of the crystals can be determined through the diffraction pattern. In the embodiment, the incident module and the detection module of the X-ray diffractometer 9 are respectively installed on two sides of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, the X-rays are transmitted through the transparent window installed on the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, the X-rays are incident on the surface of the etched material at an angle larger than the fixed angle of total reflection, the roughness of the etched surface, the thickness and the stress of the thin film can be detected in real time, and the information such as damage and lattice defects of the thin film can be detected in real time through X-ray scanning work.
The X-ray diffractometer 9 is arranged outside the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 and is incident to the surface of the etched material through the transmission window, and the receiver of the X-ray diffractometer is hermetically arranged on the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 or outside the transparent window of the sealed RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1.
In order to realize the real-time detection function, the X-ray diffractometer 9 is used for receiving XRD incident on the surface of the etched material at a specific angle and detecting the change of the reflectivity of the surface of the material in the etching process so as to reflect the change of the thickness and the surface roughness of the etched material.
The X-ray diffractometer 9 may implement in-situ X-ray characterization testing techniques of the material etching process, including X-ray diffraction, X-ray CTR scattering (crystal truncation) and X-ray reflectivity, etc.
The X-ray diffractometer 9 is used for detecting the lattice structure of the etched material on line, so that the formation process of the defects is monitored, and guidance is provided for optimizing equipment and reducing the defects and etching damage. And can be used to monitor residual stress.
The device integrates the temperature tester 7 for detecting the temperature in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, adopts a single-camera colorimetric temperature measurement system, and realizes real-time monitoring of the temperature in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 by detecting the etching material or the surface of the etching cavity through the transparent irradiation window. While monitoring the temperature change of the etching plasma in the RIE semiconductor material etching chamber 1.
The device integrates a warpage tester 8, the warpage tester is installed at the top of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, a detection light path is transmitted through the transparent window, warpage in material etching is detected on line, residual stress in the material can be deduced, and a calculation result and an XRD residual stress analysis result can be compared and verified.
Residual stress and temperature detection can be performed by CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and stress model coupling simulation to predict the etching result.
The gas flowmeter 2 and the gas pressure gauge 6 which are integrated in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 are mainly used for detecting the uniformity of reaction gas and pressure in the etching cavity, the gas flowmeter 2 and the gas pressure gauge 6 are arranged at the top of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, so that observation and adjustment are convenient, the corresponding relation between the etching uniformity and the etching rate in the etching process of different semiconductor materials is determined through experiments, and etching process parameters are optimized.
The gas pressure gauge is used for monitoring the vacuum degree inside the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 in real time, ensuring the etching speed of plasma and reducing the surface roughness of the etching material.
The gas flow meter is used for monitoring the uniformity of gas injection in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 in real time, monitoring the concentration change of etching gas at different positions of the etching material in real time to adjust the gas flow input of corresponding areas, so that the consumption and the supply of the etching gas at different parts of the etching material are consistent, and the etching uniformity and the etching rate are ensured to be consistent.
All the on-line detection measuring points can be any point on the etched crystal and are more used for detecting the edge and the groove of the etched crystal of the material.
An Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)5 and the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 are integrated together, wherein a probe and a cantilever beam of the atomic force microscope 5 are partially integrated in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, so that the semiconductor material transferring process in the etching process is reduced, the pollution probability of the etched material by the external environment is reduced, and the in-situ measurement of the surface morphology of the thin film in the etching process is realized. The atomic force microscope 5 is used for measuring the surface appearance and the force curve of the film, and the AFM is integrated in the etching sealing cavity, so that the material transfer process in the etching process can be reduced, the pollution probability of the etched material by the external environment is reduced, and the online detection of the surface appearance and the etching depth uniformity of the material in the etching process is realized.
The measuring means of the embodiment basically realizes the monitoring of information directly related to defects such as covering elements, crystal lattices, substances and the like and the detection of thin film information such as surface roughness, etching depth, aspect ratio and the like of the thin film. Meanwhile, the etching process of the material with low damage and high performance is realized by detecting the temperature, the pressure and the like in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, analyzing the system, optimizing the etching parameters, and improving the etching speed and the uniformity. But not limited to the above online real-time detection means.
In specific implementation, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a reactive ion etching RIE system for semiconductor materials in this embodiment, and fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a combined design of a mass spectrometer and a spectrometer in this embodiment. The basic structure of the RIE semiconductor material etching device with multiple detection functions comprises: the system comprises an RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, a gas flowmeter 2, a mass spectrometer-spectrometer 3, an ultrafast RHEED4, an atomic force microscope AFM5, a gas pressure gauge 6, a temperature tester 7, a warpage tester 8, an X-ray diffractometer XRD9, a radio-frequency power supply 10 and a vacuum pump 11. But is not limited to the above structure.
The device is a composite etching cavity combining an RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 and a plurality of detection devices, wherein a gas flowmeter 2 is integrated; a mass spectrometer-spectrometer 3; ultrafast RHEED 4; an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) 5; a gas pressure gauge 6; a temperature tester 7; a warp tester 8; x-ray diffractometer (XRD) 9; a radio frequency power supply 10; a vacuum pump 11.
And, in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, the semiconductor material can rotate to any position in the etching process for online measurement.
The etching chamber has a multi-dimensional quality on-line detection function, components and a grain structure of an etched material are detected in real time by using a mass spectrometer-spectrometer 3 and an X-ray diffractometer 9 in the film etching process, whether the defects of the components, the thickness, the roughness and the grain structure of the etched film exceed the standards or not is judged layer by layer, the warping change of the film in etching is monitored in real time by using a warping measuring instrument 8, the surface temperature of the etched material and the temperatures of different parts in the etching chamber are detected by using a temperature measuring instrument 7, meanwhile, the gas in the RIE semiconductor material etching chamber 1 can be sampled and detected at any time by using the mass spectrometer-spectrometer 3, and the component proportion of etching reaction gas and the element components of volatile substances generated by reaction in the etching chamber are judged.
And a mass spectrometer-spectrometer 3 is adopted to realize the online in-situ detection of the components of the etched sample, the components of the reaction gas and the components of the reaction volatile products in the chamber at any time under the combined action of a plasma detection module of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 and an analysis module arranged outside the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1.
And the rays of the spectrum detection module and the X-ray diffractometer 9 in the mass spectrometer-spectrometer 3 are transmitted through a transparent window on the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, and the receiver receives and analyzes the signals. The installation position of the detecting instrument of the present invention is not limited to the position shown in fig. 1.
The X-ray diffractometer 9 of this embodiment is incident with X-rays at a total reflection angle with respect to the crystal lattice of the film being etched. So as to obtain the strongest diffraction signal, but not limited to the incidence angle shown in the figure, and reflect the etching information such as roughness, depth-to-width ratio and the like of the surface of the film through the received reflection information.
Furthermore, an X-ray diffractometer 9 is fixed outside the RIE semiconductor material etching chamber 1, and X-rays are transmitted through a transparent window on the etching chamber. And the X-ray diffractometer 9 may perform in-situ detection of the thin film lattice in a scanning manner.
And the warpage measuring instrument 8 adopts a laser warpage measuring instrument, the warpage measuring instrument is arranged outside the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, scanning laser is incident to an etched film through a transparent window, the laser reflected by the film is emitted from the transparent window, the deviation of the position of a received light spot and an ideal light spot is detected through a high-precision position detecting instrument to calculate the warpage of the film, and further the stress generated by lattice mismatch and thermal mismatch in the etching process is calculated, so that the RIE etching process parameters are optimized, uniform etching of the film material is realized, warpage and even cracks are avoided, and the high quality of etching is ensured. The present warp measuring device is not limited to be installed only outside the RIE semiconductor material etching chamber 1.
And, the temperature tester 7 adopts a colorimetric thermometry method, and is arranged on the side wall of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 through a transparent window, but is not limited to this temperature monitoring means.
And the gas flowmeter 2 and the gas pressure gauge 6 are used for detecting the reaction gas flow and the pressure in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 in the etching process, and because the Reaction Ion Etching (RIE) process relates to two modes of physical etching and chemical etching, the difference of the pressure and the gas flow of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1 has important influence on the two etching processes, and the control of the etching rate and the etching uniformity can be realized through the detection of the gas flowmeter 2 and the gas pressure gauge 6.
And moreover, an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)5 is integrated in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1, so that the online in-situ detection of the etching indexes such as the surface appearance, the etching depth and the like of the material in the RIE etching process is realized.
Moreover, the radio frequency power supply 10 and the vacuum pump 11 are necessary equipment for ensuring the normal operation of the RIE etching, and the radio frequency power supply 10 and the vacuum pump 11 are arranged at the bottom of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity 1; once the etching damage or the crystal grain structure defect exceeds the standard, the equipment is stopped to adjust, and the equipment parameters are optimized. The embodiment can realize the control of quality and defects in the etching process of different semiconductor materials.
It should be understood that parts of the specification not set forth in detail are well within the prior art.
It should be understood that the above description of the preferred embodiments is given for clarity and not for any purpose of limitation, and that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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1. A RIE semiconductor material etching device with multiple detection functions is characterized by comprising: the system comprises an RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1), a gas flowmeter (2), a mass spectrum-spectrum combined instrument (3), a RHEED (4), an atomic force microscope (5), a gas pressure gauge (6), a temperature tester (7), a warping tester (8), an X-ray diffractometer (9), a radio frequency power supply (10), a vacuum pump (11), a collecting board card (12) and a computer terminal (13); the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1) comprises a plurality of sealed transparent windows; the gas flowmeter (2), the gas pressure gauge (6) and the warpage tester (8) are uniformly distributed on the top of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1); the X-ray diffractometer (9) is arranged on two sides of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1); the RHEED (4) is arranged on the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity; the atomic force microscope (5) is integrated in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1); the temperature tester (7) is arranged on the side wall of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1); the radio frequency power supply (10) and the vacuum pump (11) are arranged at the bottom of the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1); the mass spectrometer-spectrum combined instrument (3) comprises an integrated inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, an inductively coupled spectrometer and an analysis device; the inductively coupled spectrometer and the analysis equipment are both arranged outside the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1), and the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer is arranged in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1); the acquisition board card (12) is connected with the computer terminal (13) through a lead; the computer terminal (13) is respectively connected with the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1), the gas flowmeter (2), the mass spectrum-spectrum combination instrument (3), the RHEED (4), the atomic force microscope (5), the gas pressure gauge (6), the temperature tester (7), the warping tester (8), the X-ray diffractometer (9), the radio frequency power supply (10) and the vacuum pump (11) in sequence through leads.
2. The RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus with multiple detection functions as claimed in claim 1, wherein the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and the inductively coupled spectrometer are integrated by gasifying an integrated common material into a plasma generating apparatus, and mass spectrometry-spectrum integration is achieved by arranging detection modules of the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and the inductively coupled spectrometer reasonably.
3. The RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus with multiple detection functions as claimed in claim 1, wherein the X-ray diffractometer (9) comprises an incident module and a receiving module, which are respectively installed at two sides of the RIE semiconductor material etching chamber (1) and are incident to the surface of the etched material through a transparent window.
4. The RIE semiconductor material etching device with multiple detection functions as claimed in claim 1, wherein the temperature measuring instrument (7) adopts a single-camera colorimetric temperature measuring system, and detects the surface temperature of the etching material or the etching cavity through a transparent window to realize real-time monitoring of the temperature in the etching cavity.
5. The RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus with multiple detection functions of claim 1, wherein the warpage measuring apparatus detects the transmission of the optical path through the transparent window.
6. The RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus with multiple detection functions of claim 1, wherein the RHEED (4) comprises an ultrafast RHEED or RHEED; an electron gun and a fluorescence imaging window of the ultrafast RHEED are respectively arranged at two sides of the etching cavity; the electron gun emits single-energy electron grazing to the surface of the etched material with very small energy, and obtains the information of film thickness, composition and crystal growth mechanism through the appearance of diffraction spots on the fluorescent screen.
7. The RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus with multiple detection functions as claimed in claim 1, wherein an atomic force microscope probe and a cantilever beam portion of the atomic force microscope (5) are integrated in the RIE semiconductor material etching chamber (1) for in-situ measurement of the surface topography of the thin film during the etching process.
8. The RIE semiconductor material etching apparatus with multiple detection functions as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mass spectrometer (3) performs component and ratio analysis by plasmatizing reaction gas in the RIE semiconductor material etching chamber (1) during etching process; the X-ray diffractometer (9) utilizes the crystal to generate a diffraction pattern, reflects information in the arrangement aspect of atoms in the crystal and determines a series of information such as the type and phase composition of the crystal; the gas pressure gauge (6) is used for monitoring the vacuum degree in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1) in real time; the gas flowmeter (2) is used for monitoring the flow and flow rate uniformity of gas injection in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1) in real time; the atomic force microscope (5) measures the surface appearance and the force curve of the film through a cantilever beam probe; the warpage tester (8) acquires morphology pictures of the etched material at a high speed through the camera for comparison, obtains a comparison result of morphology change, and determines the warpage condition after etching; the temperature tester (7) can monitor the temperature change of the material in the etching process in real time; the acquisition board card (12) is used for integrating the components and the proportion of the reaction gas after being converted into plasma, a diffraction pattern, the vacuum degree in the RIE semiconductor material etching cavity (1), the flow and the flow rate of body injection, the surface appearance and the force curve of the film, the appearance picture of the etched material and the temperature change of the material, and transmitting the components and the proportion to the computer terminal (13).
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